Ribh's D'Coopage

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Skills have as the name implies always been separated from that academic tower called intelligence in the UK.
I've lurched from one extreme to the other in my life. I've got quite a few worthless bits of paper and the things that make me most proud are things like the lamps I make and of course my odd house which are both unconventional.

I love your Lamps shad. How would I go about buying one?

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[LozzyR]

Probably these: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/blue-banded-bee-information.html
They are very pretty. I'm keen to have some of these.

Yep, that’s them! I’m always pleased when I see one.

 

[BY Bob]

even when they had a row one day & the girl broke of his horn & stabbed him in the heart. End of pretend friend. She had anger management issues

That does feel like an anger issue. I would have to agree.

 

[BY Bob]

My girls have a pretty nice run. There is a Ficus, native grasses, 2 iron bark & a Flame tree situated inside the fence. I have put in a couple of logs & when we extend there will be a roost as well but check this out...
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They have reduced the height of the back fence by nearly 2'!
That's less than 12 months of leaf litter than has been pushed down hill until they have very nearly leveled out the slope in their run.
You can see where the run extension will go. The girls will have a hay~day when we move the wire but it's no wonder I have problems keeping my girls in!

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My gosh. What a plan on their part. Is Colonel Hogan leading your flock? Are you their Sargent Shultz? The only thing keeping them in is their own desire to stay in. They are clearly just messing with you.

Mine would just jump over that.

 

[WhoDatChick]

I love this, Bob!!!! I know a number of homeschoolers who's children think differently & were doing poorly in school [partly why they got pulled. ] Most are super bright & school drives them crazy. My kinesthetic daughter drove me crazy. She left her schoolwork all round the house.

When I was doing remedial work I got one really, really bright but super difficult young man [eventually got himself expelled, no mean feat in today's educational system] who still couldn't read in grade 6. He had no interest whatsoever. What he was interested in was fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats & monster trucks. I told him he could bring his dad's bike manual in & then found every book I could on cars, bikes, boats, trucks. Eventually we moved on to sharks & fishing. Yes, it was one on one teaching & he was so difficult I was given a lot of leeway to teach however I saw fit [his teacher was just relieved to get him out of her classroom! ] but finding a key to spark his motivation to learn is what made the difference. I had him nearly up to grade level by the end of the year & I only got him for 20 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks a term ~ that's all our funding would run too.

Here was a kid who could take apart a non~working motor & put it back in working order yet was expected to sit still all day & do things that had no relevance to life as he knew it. We should be doing better. We have the information.

This is why I LOVE homeschooling!!!!!

 

[WhoDatChick]

My girls have a pretty nice run. There is a Ficus, native grasses, 2 iron bark & a Flame tree situated inside the fence. I have put in a couple of logs & when we extend there will be a roost as well but check this out...
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They have reduced the height of the back fence by nearly 2'!
That's less than 12 months of leaf litter than has been pushed down hill until they have very nearly leveled out the slope in their run.
You can see where the run extension will go. The girls will have a hay~day when we move the wire but it's no wonder I have problems keeping my girls in!

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I’m having the same problem.... I keep adding to their coop and now I’m hitting my head in places

 

[Ribh]

That does feel like an anger issue. I would have to agree.

She was a very intense child. She is a very laid back young lady now. She seems to have the anger thing under control.

 

[Ribh]

This is why I LOVE homeschooling!!!!!

Yep. I'm not a trained teacher but I did a lot of remedial work @ our small local school. Everything I learnt about teaching any child, I learnt from remedial work. They don't use the new fangled theories in remedial, just tried & true practices we all know will work!

 

[Ribh]

My gosh. What a plan on their part. Is Colonel Hogan leading your flock? Are you their Sargent Shultz? The only thing keeping them in is their own desire to stay in. They are clearly just messing with you.

Mine would just jump over that.

Mine do just jump over that. Originally most of my girls were the bigger, heavier breeds & not really prone to hopping the fence. Now I have Campines & bantams ~ who all get great joy from having me chase them round the yard.When they've had enough they put themselves back over & look @ me as if I'm a mad woman. I'm sure Aoife is channeling Hogan. Their days are numbered.